Huts and campsites must be booked in advance year round. Book the Abel Tasman Coast Track online. Check the tide timetables before you book. You can only cross Awaroa Inlet in daylight, and within 1 ...

Huts and campsites must be booked in advance year round. Book the Abel Tasman Coast Track online. Check the tide timetables before you book. You can only cross Awaroa Inlet in daylight, and within 1 ...

Check which access roads into Mt Richmond Forest Park are open or closed. Check for alerts about temporary changes that may affect the safety or enjoyment of your trip into Mount Richmond Forest Park.

Royalcam is viewing the female chick of RLK (now A85) and GLG at Signal Station Trig. The egg was laid on 11 of November 2024 and hatched on 28 January 2025. Join the Royal Cam discussion at the end ...

This well-graded forest path follows a section of the old Bridle Track, the first link between Otago and Westland. We recommend walkers use two vehicles (one at each end) or walk back the same way.

Remote, rugged, immense, Te Urewera is the home of the Tūhoe people and is famous for its lakes and forested beauty. Te Urewera is recognised in New Zealand law as a living person. Te Urewera is ...

Date: 19 July 2023. The Department of Conservation in partnership with Ngāi Tahu is moving four male kākāpō from Whenua Hou/Codfish Island near Rakiura Stewart Island to Sanctuary Mountain ...

Date: 07 May 2025. In the video, a small egg, resembling a tiny hen’s egg, emerges from the neck of the unique land snail.. DOC has been managing a captive population of the threatened snails in ...

A whale so rare only six specimens have ever been known to science has washed ashore on an Otago beach. On Thursday 4 July, Department of Conservation (DOC) staff were notified a type of beaked whale ...

A takahē and a tuatara have been filmed engaging in a bush-floor stoush in a new video captured by a quick-thinking DOC Ranger. Filmed on pest-free Tiritiri Matangi Island, the video shows New Zealand ...

The Milford Opportunities Project (2017 to 2024) explored ways to do tourism differently at Piopiotahi and along the Milford Road corridor for the benefit of people and place. Breathtaking Milford ...

Conservation value reports were prepared by DOC technical teams, with information about Ngāi Tahu values and interests provided directly by the Mana Whenua Panel. The reports have information about ...